[CentOS] sed question

James A. Peltier
2015-08-25T17:56:11Z

----- Original Message -----
| I am trying to use sed to change a value in a pipe.
|
| ------------------- This is the two line script
| CHANGE="1234"
|
| cat my_file.txt | sed 's/CANCELID/$CHANGE/' > cancel.txt
| -------------------
|
| and the my_file.txt has:
|          <v1:notificationId>CANCELID</v1:notificationId>
|
| it gets changed to $CHANGE instead of the actual value 1234 .
| I tried putting a \ in front of the $ also and made no difference.
|
| What am I not doing correctly.
|
| Thanks,
|
| jerry

Single quotes = literal.  Double quotes = interpreted

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